You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. --FRANZ KAFKA

I like your list - especially number 1, it appeals to me greatly. Number 3 is problematic at present because as you know I can't truthfully say "I don't know." My passport is being scrutinised at Immigration in an unpleasant land where I hope not to be detained for long.

this is way too late but I loved the post. So belated happy birthday and:

1. How about buying a present for my worst enemy?2. I can certainly forget about discipline on my birthday!3. When you say you don´t know you might actually know, but not want to know. If you say you know, you might not know that in fact you don´t know. There is a lot of sense in that don´t you think? lol!4. She sure asked for it!5. I like going to friends´places on my birthday and tell them: hey, I´ve come for you to tell me happy birthday!

if its my birthday at any age I will eat birthday cake because when you go to peoples birthday you ethier eat their cake or you dont but this is YOUR celabratory cake and you have every write to eat it big or small pieace IT'S YOUR DAY!!!:P- enjoy it

ITS MY BIRTHDAY TOO :DI just dont know what to do.. :$There are a lot of people arround me, im in the library of my university but everyone is busy.I want a girl now :PI wish a was a good player, im good looking but im fkn insecure.peace

tomorrow is my birthday. im turning 16. I dont know, im not going to try to say something special, its just 16 and i know im young and dont know shit about life or anything really. i've only been around for 16 years! thats so little! But i also realize thats more than a lot of people get. anyway, your #1 on the list made me cry. It means a lot to me, thank you.

anonymous: Happy, happy birthday! I wish you a wonderful birthday, and a wonderful world in which to grow and give, and many people in your life who inspire you to give the gift of yourself. LOVE to you.

hey,ann arbor, michagan it is my birthday and i am turning 11.It is so amazing.last time i remember, i was 5 yrs.old.anyways,i noticed that the time was different.this blog must have been done in a different time zone so just to let all of you know,where i live,it is 9:37a.m.On my name,it says mark but i am a girl and MY REAL NAME IS Charlotte Pardo

Hey Guys, Truely speaking hats off for mother on birthday.The way she carried u so long befor and after ur birth.mother is always more exicted abut ur birthday than u.I was lucky enough to celebrate my birthday everyyear until she left us but memories always delight and I have tears in my eyes when I think of my greatest mamma ever.So today is my birthday..but who knows it really is.I am praying for my mother's wellness.Hats off again for her as she so boldly and strongly fought with cancer until her last breath.I want to prove to the world that I am a son of a great mother..may i fulfill her dream for whatever she wanteg\d for me.May GOD bless her and comfort her wherever she is.I also pray today to take very good care of my dad and make him happy.OM SAI RAM..JAI MATA DI.My # is 9990227699 and let me tell everybody there is nothing greater than mother..Abhishek.

AWESOME LIST! (: I love the "Be a child" part! + that's what I DO! I actually go up to people and say that. It is so much fun. Except when they give you freaky looks. Anyways, nice list. Happy Birthday! (My birthday is in 3 days! and I'm turning 13.. -.-)

Hi that's Abhishek again I got a call from a person who really felt touchy by my the words.Thanks a looooot dear.I really really appreciate her cause somewhere she may also had prayed for my mom.Hey if i get my words then I want to tell u I am overwheamed by ur reaction to that cause u r also soooooooo different from other's.I would had loved to talk to u again and share my heartly things about my greatest mother.I lost my mobile yesterday somewhere otherwise would have called to say so much of thanks as it was for my Mother whom I had loved so much.My e-mail id is satyasai_abhishek@rediffmail.com ..If somebody would like to share this pain with me I may feel more relieved.Love u Mamma..May GOD bless u forever and U bless me upthere from heaven and may u get all fruits of things I have ever done goooood in my life so far and I will do.........I miss her so much and dear may you also be blessed as you have made me revive all the best moments with my mother.

Prat: But now you have spoken here to a distant stranger. Know that I hear you and am sorry for your sadness. Sometimes birthdays are hard because we expect to feel something we simply can't at that moment in time. I hope you can find some sweetness in your day.

My mother was an abuser. And i thanked dad every yr before his passing i never got much but dad tried to give me at least one smile on my birthday till he died in march 05. I miss him. It's a little to cold in November in north east Indiana to go around telling people on street it's your birthday. But maybe next year i will buy self balloon and tape it to the door.

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My second novel, THE ORPHANS OF RACE POINT, an epic love story that spans several decades and is tested by murder, betrayal, faith, and destiny, set amidst the vibrant Portuguese community in Provincetown, Massachusetts will be published by Harper on January 7, 2014.